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Autumn Quotes and Sayings

Autumn is not my favorite season, but I still do like all the seasons, and here is a collection of Autumn Quotes and Autumn Sayings for all the Autumn Lovers out there.

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
~ Dorothy Parker

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~Edwin Way Teale

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
~P.D. James

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.
~Helen Hunt Jackson

In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color.
~ Buson

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.”
~ Edwin Teale

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
~Elizabeth Bowen

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
~Samuel Butler

October is a symphony of permanence and change.
~Bonaro W. Overstreet

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours.
I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold
doesn’t crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.
~D.H. Lawrence

Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
~Robert Browning Hamilton

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
~ C.S. Lewis

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all.
~Stanley Horowitz

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
~E. E. Cummins

Nature is, above all, profligate. Don’t believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place?
~ Annie Dillard

Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
~Vernon Duke

October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.
~Nova Bair

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
~ Emily Bronte

And I could not end a collection of Autumn Quotes without a couple Autumn Poem:

Lo! sweeten’d with the summer light,
The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,
Drops in a silent autumn night.
All its allotted length of days
The flower ripens in its place,
Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

“O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe;
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.
~ William Blake

“Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.”
~ Emily Dickinson

And ending with a short quote about Autumn:
Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.
~William Cullen Bryant

When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
~B. Cybrill

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